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deltoid and 14 inches long, but the smaller earliest from reni- 
form to orbicular, all as coarsely crenate as those of a Glechoma 
or Nepeta, their petioles very long and slender: the still more 
slender peduncles remarkably short, of little, if any more than 
half the length of the leaves, bractlets inserted much above the 
middle: sepals oblong-lanceolate, minutely though distinctly 
ciliolate; petals violet (perhaps pale), with obovate obtuse limb, 
the upper pair distinctly largest, laterals only slightly bearded, 
the keel conspicuously shortest. 
For this most distinct and doubtless new violet I am indebted 
to the zeal and acumen of Mr. E. S. Steele of the Smithsonian 
Institute, who collected it in a piece of low woodland two miles 
beyond St. Elizabeth’s hospital, on or near the border of the 
District of Columbia, 27 April, 1899; who noted some of its 
peculiarities, at the time, but admitted, with me, that it might 
be called N, affinis, Le Conte; a position from which now, upon 
a careful examination and comparison, I am obliged to recede. 
The apetalous flowers are all above ground on short very slender, 
ascending peduncles. Were 
Some specimens constituting n. 20 of Mr. Pollard’s distribu- 
tion, under the name of V. cucullata, collected by Mr. W. R. 
Maxon somewhere near Washington in the year 1900, I would 
refer here with little or no hesitancy, although none of these, as 
far as my set shows, have that very marked outline of a catnip 
leaf (though more cordate) which those obtained by Mr. Steele 
‘80 perfectly exhibit. i s 
V.LATIUscULA. Acaulescent, related to V. afinzs, but herbage © 
of firmer and more succulent texture, equally glabrous in all 
its parts: early and petaliferous plants only 3 or 4 inches high: 
leaves from semiorbicular and subreniform to more elongated and 
subhastate-cordate, ł to 1 inch in breadth, the earliest shorter, 
the later somewhat longer than broad: peduncles few, about — 
equalling the leaves, bibracteolate near the middle, bractlets nar- 
row, acuminate, few-toothed: sepals ovate-lanceolate and lanceo- 
late, obtuse, short for the size of the corolla: corolla of broad 
